Bill Nye: The Science Guy

  • : 1993
  • : 100
  • : 36
  • PBS
  • Children Comedy Documentary Family

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4x1
Rivers & Streams
Episode overview
03, 1995
Water is massive; rivers are powerful. As rivers flow downhill, they wear away rock and soil to form canyons or winding curves in the land, called meanders. Sometimes rivers fill and .. show full overview
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Nutrition
Episode overview
10, 1995
All food, whether it’s protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, or minerals, is made of chemicals. When your body gets a hold of these chemicals, it recombines them and makes energy. .. show full overview
4x3
Marine Mammals
Episode overview
17, 1995
Whales, dolphins, otters, walruses, and orcas are just like us, they’re mammals. Well, they’re not just like us. They live in the ocean. They breathe air, have hair, nurse their babies, .. show full overview
4x4
Earthquakes
Episode overview
24, 1995
Earthquakes happen when pieces of land in the Earth’s crust scrape together. The crust of the Earth is made of big slabs of land called plates that are constantly moving just a little .. show full overview
4x5
NTV Top 11 Video Countdown
Episode overview
01, 1995
Join Bill Nye as he counts down the hits from the Soundtracks of Science. Along with the music, Bill does a few new experiments on the lab bench. You’ll see the grunge band Nyevana’s .. show full overview
4x6
Spiders
Episode overview
05, 1996
Be sure to get this straight: spiders are not insects, they’re arachnids. Spiders have eight legs, and insects have only six. Spiders have two body parts, a head and an abdomen, while .. show full overview
4x7
Pollution Solutions
Episode overview
12, 1996
Dirty water, land, and air are a result of pollution. People are the only animals on Earth that make pollution. Garbage, burning fuel, chemicals, sewage, oil, and pesticides are all .. show full overview
4x8
Probability
Episode overview
19, 1996
Probability is a way to measure how likely it is that something will happen. Probabilities are predictions. They’re often just very careful guesses. When a scientist wants to calculate a .. show full overview
4x9
Pseudoscience
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26, 1996
People once thought that world was flat or nearly flat. It was considered a bit crazy to think of it as a big ball. But it is. You can prove it. One of the big ideas in science is that .. show full overview
4x10
Flowers
Episode overview
27, 1996
Flowers are an important part of many plants. Plants use flowers to make other plants – to reproduce. Flowers have special parts, called stamens and pistils. When pollen from the stamen .. show full overview
4x11
Archaeology
Episode overview
28, 1996
Archaeologists are kind of like detectives. They’re scientists who snoop through old or ancient people’s things to find out what life was like thousands of years ago. Archaeologists find .. show full overview
4x12
Deserts
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29, 1996
About 20% of the Earth is a desert. Deserts are places that get very little precipitation (rain or snow) each year, and that makes them extremely dry. Deserts cover big areas of land. .. show full overview
4x13
Amphibians
Episode overview
30, 1996
Frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (worm-like animals that have backbones) are all amphibians, animals that spend part of their lives in water and part on land. Amphibians .. show full overview
4x14
Volcanoes
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31, 1996
Volcanoes are mountains made from molten rock. The Earth’s crust is divided into big slabs, called plates, which are slowly moving all the time. The plates are floating on the Earth’s .. show full overview
4x15
Invertebrates
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07, 1996
Worms, squid, clams, and flies are spineless creatures. They’re not afraid, they’re invertebrates – animals that don’t have backbones. Invertebrates are everywhere. You can find .. show full overview
4x16
Heart
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14, 1996
Your heart pumps your blood around your body, all hours, every day of the week, to keep you alive. Your heart is about the size of your fist, and it’s made of special muscle called .. show full overview
4x17
Inventions
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21, 1996
Almost everything around you, from paper clips to computers, was thought of, designed, and built by humans. An invention can be a totally new idea, or an improved variation on something .. show full overview
4x18
Computers
Episode overview
25, 1996
Computers are used throughout the world all the time. Computers are in cars, calculators, televisions – you’re even using one right now. Humans use computers to take information – things .. show full overview
4x19
Fossils
Episode overview
05, 1997
Most dead animals and plants break up, get decomposed, and become part of the soil, but some turn into fossils. A fossil forms when a plant or animal dies, and gets buried. If conditions .. show full overview
4x20
Time
Episode overview
12, 1997
Time affects every living thing on Earth. Trees shed their leaves. Some animals only come out at night. There are even insects that only emerge every 17 years. Days, hours, minutes, and .. show full overview

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